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Lest We Forget: ‘It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.’

The proverbial stars seemed to be aligned for the young officer. After his graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1905, he was posted to a brand-new battleship in the Asiatic Fleet, a plum assignment at the time. His early performance was so impressive that, as an ensign, he was given command of the newly commissioned gunboat USS Panay and simultaneous command of a small naval station in the Philippines, prompting him to describe his good fortune as having “one foot ashore and one at sea.”

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